The CUNY
The New Caucus has failed us in every way
Our Philosophy
● Our Union should focus
on the well being of its members — salary, benefits, working
conditions and job security.
●Equal benefits
for retirees and active members.
●An open books policy is essential to
sound governance
●Union members should help guide union
policy.
● Probity, not
profligacy: disciplined, responsible expenditure of union funds
Our experienced
slate includes:
● Two current PSC Chapter Chairs
● Several former Chapter
Chairs
●A founding member of the PSC
●Experienced negotiators, grievance officers, and others with
years of commitment to the union
●Representatives from the
entire spectrum of CUNY
Nine
years of New Caucus failures have cost us dearly
·
The incumbents negotiated raises that failed to keep up with cost of
living increases. Since 2002, our base salary increased 11.9% as the
result of their negotiated contracts (covering the 2002-2007 contract, and the first year of the 2007-2010
contract), far short of the 19.5% cost of living increase over that
period. That means we lost 7.5 % in real purchasing power in that time.
·
They drove the Welfare Fund Reserve into near-nothingness. We were required to give back $31 million of retroactive pay in 2006 to save the
Reserve. A typical member lost between $1000 and $2000 in retroactive pay, and
some gave up as much as $2600.
·
Under the incumbents, we suffer catastrophically degraded dental benefits
and lost our free life insurance.
Tellingly, our
sister unions achieved better contracts than we did under the incumbent reign
·
During the last 9 years, our sister unions District Council 37, the
public school teacher’s (UFT), and the United University Professors (SUNY)
negotiated salary increases far higher than the incumbents negotiated for us.
·
If those unions reached better deals than the PSC in the same city, in
the same tough economic times, and under the same hostile government
administrations, the blame for our worse contracts rests solely on our
opponents’ incompetence and mismanagement.
Our Plan
·
We will focus your funds and our efforts on union business to help
restore your benefits. To better achieve that goal, we will end the union’s current
focus on global political issues.
·
We will devote our energy to tough and sustained negotiations, but will
deny the university a contract until our need for better benefits and working
conditions is met.
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We will post all financial records and minutes of meetings on the web.
When tough choices have to be made, we will let your informed views guide our
decisions.
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We will do justice to adjuncts, HEO’s and CLT’s. The University must acknowledge, by way of salaries,
benefits and security, their essential roles in the work of the University.
End nine years of New Caucus Failures
The 9-year record of New Caucus failures stands as record of their incompetence
and mismanagement. The entrenched
incumbents’ unrelenting focus on global politics is to the detriment of union
business. We’ve paid the price for that distracted leadership for too long. The
CUNY ALLIANCE is different. We focus on the bread and butter issues of members of the educational community.
Refocus our union on the issues that count
Help us clean house
Vote
the CUNY
Put OUR interests
at the top of the union agenda
● President: Fred Brodzinski ● First V.P.: James Blake
● Secretary: Thea Pignataro ●
Treasurer: Rina Yarmish
See the CUNY
See our website for a more detailed description of our plans
To contact us via email write
to: ca@cunyalliance.org For more information go to: www.cunyalliance.org